Re: Internet Governance & "Producers' Cooperatives"

[Salvador Vidal <salva@jumpersoft.com>]

 Einar wrotes:
> >
> >I do not believe what we need is a new Government Of The Internet!
> >
> >Lets draw a parallel between the Global Internet and the Global
> >Economy, both of which nobody can or should "own" in the sense of
> >centrally controlling "it" as though it is some kind of monolithic
> >centrally controllable thing.
> >
> >(edit)
> >
> >All historical instances of centrally controlled economies have been
> >known to fail, and now every government that ever "owned" an economy
> >has come to wish it did not own one.  In short, economies work much
> >better when not centrally controlled.  So do Internets.
> >
> >My thesis is the the Internet is more like an economy than an
> >enterprise, and so it is not a good idea to form up a central control
> >mechanism for it, regardless of how you might scheme to rig
> >representation to arrive at a "fair" arrangement to share power at the
> >center among all the people who have an interest in one or another
> >part of the Internet.
> >
> >The Internet only works when its users are free to make their own
> >choices, and to cooperate with those the they find it useful to
> >cooperate with.  In short, we don't need singular central control to
> >make us cooperate.  We do it better on our own with free and open
> >markets, which only work well when they are indeed free and open.

Internet is a market yes, but also:

A place for culture, investigation, human relations, cooperation, education
...

And also for childrens corruption, crime organization, people manipulation ...

Please explain how can we aply your economic model to these points?

No goberment means the law of the strongest, Mr. Gates will be very happy,
anybody else?

I agree that we dont need a central control just the opposite to give the
control to the people.

Best Regards,
	Salvador Vidal